Ok so I just read the WoW manual ...

Incite · November 29, 2004, 11:13:09 PM

... there's a nice history at the back. SoE lore "writers" take note - this is something you can aspire to. Nope, it's not literature by any means but it does not read like it was written by an eight year old high on Eddings' crap either.

Ogee · November 30, 2004, 04:15:54 AM

Incite · November 30, 2004, 12:08:19 PM

Ogee · November 30, 2004, 02:46:41 PM

Koullyn · November 30, 2004, 04:05:56 PM

HAHA!

I agree, SoE could learn a lot by paying attention to the folks at Blizzard. WoW beats EQ/EQ2 hands down.

Ogee · November 30, 2004, 04:09:56 PM

Ya 2 hour waits to get in game < story line

Khayden · November 30, 2004, 04:51:21 PM

I wouldn't doubt Blizzard are better at making an entertaining game initially.

I also wouldn't doubt they're gonna be nowhere near as good as SOE at keeping it running and entertaining over a period of time.

I haven't tried WoW but what I hear from people who have it "great until you complete it". Seems to be born out by reports of level 20 players on release day.

EQ2 seems fun to me and they seem to be avoiding alot of the EQ mistakes quite well.

Each to their own though.

Khayden

Rylden Riptide · November 30, 2004, 04:54:06 PM

Considering the fact that the storyline on which the game is based as been around for about twenty years, that's not really all that impressive.

Skanda · November 30, 2004, 04:59:57 PM

QuoteYa 2 hour waits to get in game < story line

That's on 4 of 88 servers. If you wern't dumb enough to go flocking to one of those 4 servers because it has a cool name like the other 50k people did then you don't have a problem at all.

QuoteI also wouldn't doubt they're gonna be nowhere near as good as SOE at keeping it running and entertaining over a period of time.

I haven't tried WoW but what I hear from people who have it "great until you complete it". Seems to be born out by reports of level 20 players on release day.

Tell that to the guilds at the end of GoD when they have to kill the last boss only to watch it raise itself from the dead and make them go through it all again.

Plus "all the people you hear from" haven't seen anything of the "end" of WoW. During beta there was no "end". Oxynia (sp?) was as good as it got and the lowest anyone ever got her was 60ish%. What the hell was fun about EQ's end game? Not one damn thing that I saw that Blizzard couldn't do better.

Incite · November 30, 2004, 05:02:23 PM

It's not the game play ....

It's not the longevity ...

It's not the story ...

It's the quality of writing. SoE can afford to hire decent writers but they don't they hire 8th rate hacks who write pure, unadulterated crapola. I can write better than SoE's lore writers and I barely put out one short story a year. If I can write better than them then they truely suck.

Ogee · November 30, 2004, 07:31:02 PM

http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~converse/pix/reading.jpg

Removed the imbedded picture. Please refrain from further links of this kind - Jaeren

Latang · November 30, 2004, 07:47:06 PM

Ogee, wtf? delete that stupid fucking picture. If it floats your boat, fine, jerk off to it all you like, don't post dumb shit like that.

Ogee · November 30, 2004, 07:50:36 PM

I just took a photo of me reading Wow lore for Incite with my web cam . Don't hate me cause i'm beautiful .

Lorathir · November 30, 2004, 08:24:46 PM

Liar. That's you in your sig, checking out fat boys crack.

Koullyn · November 30, 2004, 09:57:11 PM

To be honest I would have to think people nuts to endure another SoE game. EQ has been 4 years of frustration, SWG blows, Planetside blew and now EQ2 is horrible from what I played. In beta it was just as buggy as it is now. Game play isn't smooth and they can't make things work well on AMD computers. Instead of actually working on it I was told by tech support I should switch to an Intel chip. What kind of support is that. Sony can kiss my ass, I would play scrabble before I gave them anymore money on a new game.